What a great topic: I am Bless to live in New Mexico and raised my family here: We all Hunt, Fish, and Camp. We have big game, small game and good fishing. Back to the topic, Number #1 rifle is my 300 Win Mag. we hand load all our ammo and we use 180 gr for Elk and Bear, 150 gr for Deer and Antelope. Mostly long range 300yds plus. We have Prairie dogs!! finest self erecting targets know to man. 223, 22-250 and 308 (will suck a dog out of his hole at 600yds). Eastern NM has ducks, geese, pheasant, quail (bobs, blues, gambles) prairie chickens, doves. so shotguns are big part of our hunting also. thanks for the great stories
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